Yuletide

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Yuletide fandom requests from 2006: 10 Things I Hate About You to The Colbert Report
Yuletide fandom requests from 2006: Cold Case to The Goodies
Yuletide fandom requests from 2006: Gordon Korman - MacDonald Hall series to Lone Gunmen
Yuletide fandom requests from 2006: Lonesome Dove (tv) to Raymond Chandler - oeuvre
Yuletide fandom requests from 2006: Raymond E. Feist - The Riftwar Saga to TH White - The Once and Future King series
Yuletide fandom requests from 2006: The Thief Lord (movie) to Zorro (1990 tv)

Yuletide is a Secret Santa project for rare fandoms. It has existed since 2003 and asks that participants write at least 1000 words of giftfic in an obscure fandom, given a single person's requested fandoms, characters, and any notes they might offer.

[edit] Participation

In 2006, 1052 stories were written in 549 different fandoms by 902 participants. About 60% of participants uploaded their stories on the last day. [1]

In 2007, 1279 people originally signed up to participate. That year, 2042 stories were written in 734 different fandoms by 1291 participants (including pinch hitters).

[edit] Discussion

On January 1, 2007, the administrators announced that in the future, "if you sign up for Yuletide and upload a story, you are agreeing to let us keep that story in the archive, for good." [2] Although the administrators will adjust or delete all identifying information on a story if requested, they will not be removed from the archive, even upon request. This decision helped to prompt a fannish discussion about ownership. (On January 6th, for instance, metafandom linked to a post by LiveJournal user celandineb on Fanfic and ownership rights.)

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